Eugène Boudin

Boudin, Eugene-Louis

French, 1824 - 1898

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Eugène Boudin, Women on the Beach at Berck, 1881, oil on wood, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.15

Women on the Beach at Berck

Eugène Boudin · 1881 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1970.17.15

About two dozen men and women sit in straight-backed, wooden chairs gathered along a sandy expanse around pockets of water under a slate-blue sky that fills the top two-thirds of this horizontal landscape painting. Most of the people sit with their backs to us but the faces we can see suggest they all have light skin. The people gather in a loose crowd that crosses the left two-thirds of the composition. The women wear dark hats and long dresses with full skirts, their shoulders wrapped in shawls in black, red, dark yellow, or cream white. The men also wear hats, most of them black bowler hats, and suits in black or pecan brown. A few women hold up blue parasols in harvest gold, slate blue, teal, or gray. Two women and a man sit on the sand to the right. Three changing huts stand behind the group across the left half, and two brown horses stand at the water’s edge nearby. Three poles march into the distance to the right near where more people gather across a pocket of water. The artist signed and dated the lower right corner, “E. Boudin – 65.”
Eugène Boudin, Bathing Time at Deauville, 1865, oil on wood, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.8

Bathing Time at Deauville

Eugène Boudin · 1865 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1983.1.8

About three dozen men and women sit, stand, or stroll along a sandy beach beneath a sunset-streaked sky in this horizontal landscape painting. The people are small in scale within the landscape, taking up about a quarter of the canvas's height. The scene is loosely painted so many of the facial features are indistinct, but the faces we can see have pale or olive-toned skin. The area closest to us is a strip of sand, and, a short distance away, a brown and white dog sits facing away from us to our left of center. The women all wear dresses with long sleeves, tight bodices, and ankle-length hoop skirts in shades of baby blue, smoke gray, butter yellow, chocolate brown, crimson red, black, or white. Some wear jackets, capes, or shawls, and veils flutter off some of their hats and bonnets. The men wear suits with long tails and rounded hats. Most of the people sit in wooden chairs, and a few stand or walk along the beach. The walking women carrying long sticks or canes. Smudges of ruby red, slate blue, and a touch of straw yellow could be the form of a child crouching in the sand, to our left. Two ladderback chairs sit near the crowd to our right. The horizon comes less than a quarter of the way up the composition. Thin screens of pale gray clouds above are touched on the undersides with petal pink, and they break to show peeks of soft yellow along the horizon and topaz blue a bit higher up.
Eugène Boudin, The Beach at Villerville, 1864, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.4

The Beach at Villerville

Eugène Boudin · 1864 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.4

Eight men, women, and children stand or sit in straight-backed, wooden chairs gathered along a sandy beach near low, gently breaking waves with sailboats floating in the ocean beyond in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted throughout, making much of the detail indistinct. Most of the people sit with their backs to us but the faces we can see suggest they have light skin. The people gather in a loose crowd that spans the left half of the composition, except for one woman wearing white and holding a blue parasol who sits to the right. The women wear long dresses with full skirts in shades of black, aquamarine or arctic blue, or snowy white. They all wear straw-colored hats with royal-blue bands. The three men also wear hats and suits in black or pecan brown. Two women, in addition to the one sitting alone, hold up blue parasols. One child wears a white dress and hat, and the other wears shades of blue and a straw hat with a red band. A white dog with brown spots stands on our side of the chairs near a woman and the child wearing white. One tall, wooden pole with a blue banner rises high above the crowd near the left edge of the composition, and another with a red pennant is farther back to the right. Between the group and the water, a person rides a brown horse, several women walk, and two children play in the sand. A rowboat is near the breaking waves and five white sailboats line the horizon, which comes about a quarter of the way up this painting. A steamship leaves a line of muted lilac-purple smoke in the deep distance to the right. A blanket of pale gray clouds cover much of the bright blue sky. The artist signed the lower right corner, “E. Boudin.”
Eugène Boudin, Beach at Trouville, 1864/1865, oil on wood, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.12

Beach at Trouville

Eugène Boudin · 1864/1865 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1970.17.12

A dozen men, women, and children walk, stand, or sit on a waterside wharf that spans this horizontal painting. A jetty stretches into the distance at a right angle, starting to the left of center. Dozens more people pack the jetty. The people close to us all appear to have pale skin. The men wear suits and hats in brown or black, and the women wear long hoop skirts, capes, and hats, some with veils, in shades of sky blue, red, gray, or mustard yellow. A man and woman sit on an ice-blue bench near a solitary streetlamp at the center of the composition. A small brown dog runs toward the bench from the right, and a black and white dog sniffs the ground to the left. Facing away from us, a man and woman lean onto a white fence at the water’s edge near the entry to the jetty. A dock is across a strip of topaz-blue water, where a sailboat kicks up some white ripples. Two flag-topped masts rise beyond the crowded jetty, and a steampipe between them pours charcoal-gray smoke into the pale blue sky. Paler gray clouds line the top edge of the painting, and a loose band of white clouds lines the horizon, which comes about a quarter of the way up the composition. The scene is loosely painted so people’s features and many details are indistinct. The artist signed and dated the lower right, corner, “E. Boudin. 63.”
Eugène Boudin, Jetty and Wharf at Trouville, 1863, oil on wood, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.9

Jetty and Wharf at Trouville

Eugène Boudin · 1863 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1983.1.9

The painting shows a beach scene with several figures gathered on the shore. The group of figures is gathered between four white tent-like structures. All of the figures are elaborately dressed in colorful gowns or suits, with many wearing hats or holding parasols. Behind the group is the ocean, with a few figures swimming. The color scheme includes earthy tones for the sand and beach huts, and brighter colors like whites, blacks, blues, and reds for the people's clothing. The sky is predominantly soft blues and grays with wispy clouds.
Eugène Boudin, Beach Scene, 1862, oil on wood, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.13

Beach Scene

Eugène Boudin · 1862 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1983.1.13

Eugène Boudin, Marine View, 1898, published 1900, etching on wove paper, Gift of Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel, 2000.7.7

Marine View

Eugène Boudin · 1898, published 1900 · etching on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2000.7.7

Eugène Boudin, Yacht Basin at Trouville-Deauville, probably 1895/1896, oil on wood, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.16

Yacht Basin at Trouville-Deauville

Eugène Boudin · probably 1895/1896 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1970.17.16

Eugène Boudin, On the Beach, 1894, oil on wood, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.6

On the Beach

Eugène Boudin · 1894 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1963.10.6

Eugène Boudin, Washerwomen on the Beach of Etretat, 1894, oil on wood, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.17

Washerwomen on the Beach of Etretat

Eugène Boudin · 1894 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1970.17.17